But that trick never works!

So I see where DC is going to cancel the current Legion of Superheroes title with issue #50.

Okay, I'm no one to talk here--I gave up on this book fairly early on. I might add that, generally speaking, I tend to be a Legion fan who will stick with them through hell, high water, confusion and clones. I love the Legion, have for thirty-plus years. And yet, this incarnation just didn't do it for me. They weren't "my" Legion. Even bringing in Jim Shooter didn't get me to bite the hook again. And I've got a reasonable tolerance for comic change, most of the time. So I'm not sure that I'm really expressing surprise at this announcement, because clearly I'm evidence that some folks just didn't much like the book.

However, it doesn't seem as if sales were all that bad. So I have to assume that canceling the title has to do with beginning something new for the Legion. As an old-timer, I'd be lying if I didn't say I was hoping, just a little, for the return of the old Legion seen in the current Justice League title. The one I grew up with. However, they're all grown up now as well--they were all adults before their run ended. And, much as I enjoyed that, I think there's really something sort of core about the Legion being a young group.

So I suppose, in a while, I'll be trying out a new Legion book. We'll see whether this one sticks.